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February 6, 2021
A Brazilian moth species, Gorgone macarea, drinks the tears of sleeping birds.
February 5, 2021
A recent excavation of an ancient fast-food eatery found that Pompeiians likely enjoyed eating a soup made of snail, fish and sheep!
February 4, 2021
Instead of "Once upon a time," Korean folk tales start with "When the tiger used to smoke."
February 3, 2021
Sea cucumbers bloat themselves with water to travel on ocean currents!
February 2, 2021
Babe Ruth hit his 700th career home run on a Friday the 13th!
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster," a custom Telecaster with a real, preserved piranha sealed in resin!
Food
A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
Sunday Cartoon! - August 16, 2026
In 2025, a Texas pickleball team called The Pickle Breakers played pickleball nonstop for 36 hours.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
